Painter. Studied drawing under Miguel Pou and painting at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) under Spaniard Esteban Vicente. In 1948 she received a scholarship from the UPR to study in New York under German painter Hans Hofmann. Her stay in New York allowed her to come into contact with some of the great abstract artists, such as Morris Kantor, Carl Holty, and Vaclav Vytlacil at the New York League of Art Students. In 1951 she attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, and the following year the Fine Arts Academy of Florence. In 1956 her paintings began appearing on the covers of bossa nova records produced by RCA and Verve Records. In 1958 she established herself permanently in New York City and organized her first individual exhibition in Puerto Rico. After a long and productive trajectory, she stopped painting in 1984. She is considered a pioneer of abstract expressionism in Puerto Rican art. Her abstractionism has been described by some as possessing a lyrical character.